Confirmed Speakers

Iakovos Delioglanis, BSc in Physics, MSc in Telecoms, Innovation Management Expert. Iakovos has over 15 years of experience in participating and managing international, collaborative projects and studies. Currently, Iakovos is a senior consultant at the International Projects & Studies Dpt. at Q-PLAN and is involved in the management of several on-going EU initiatives and projects that cross-cut related research and innovation topics. Within his professional career, Iakovos has acted as Coordinator, Advisor and/or Innovation Management Expert in more than 10 innovation-related EU Policy Studies, RTDI actions as well as CSA projects. Within this context, he has set up several formal and/or informal innovation networks at EU and International level addressing several important business sectors (e.g. Agri-food, ICT, Transport, Environment, etc.). He is the Project Manager of ISABEL project (H2020-Energy-691752, to be completed by 12/ 2018) and the Project Coordinator of BIOWAYS project (BBI-JU–720762, on-going, www.bioways.eu), Co-author of the “Bio-based products and applications market potential” and “Public perception on bio-based products” reports (BIOWAYS project, 2017), the “Region-specific Social Innovation and Community Energy approaches with an application potential in biogas” and “National biogas landscape and specificities – Greece” reports (ISABEL project, 2016) and the “Exploitation of project results from publicly funded transport projects - A handbook for practitioners from policy and project level" booklet (TIPS project, 2014).